CAN PERPETUAL MOTION BE ACHIEVED WITH SLINKIES?

AKITA, Japan (Wireless Flash - FlashNews)  The Slinky toy may be fun
for a girl or boy but it also might be the answer to cheap energy
for the world thanks to a Japanese engineer who claims he can
turn Slinky power into electricity.

Inventor Shigeru Horinouchi says Slinkies generate a
surprising amount of energy when they walk down
stairs  and its free for the picking.

His prototype generator uses 60 Slinkies which repeatedly
traverse up and down a staircase and a large coil which converts
the wasted energy into useable electric current.

Horinouchi says 60 Slinkies will produce about 20 kilowatt
hours of electricity each day  enough to power a family of
four in a four bedroom house.